You know, for all the insanity we've seen this past week, all the heartache and chaos and sheer "what the fark is going on with this world" moments, you have to remember that there is also a great deal of insanity of the good going on too. In a week of sadness, we've also seen a week of triumph, a week of compassion, a week of people going out of their way, risking their own lives just to make sure that total stranger has a better shot at life.

For all the insanity we're facing this week, for all the misery and chaos; we need to remember all the good that has come from that. If that is all the "April showers" that we've witnessed this week, then all the good: the giving, the outreach, the common bonds as humans that we've shared, those are the "May flowers" that have sprung forth, and in far greater abundance.

Gyrfalcon:Coco LaFemme: ShawnDoc: Per the scanner link, the carjacking is related to the MIT shooting. Latest update is car may be heading towards New York.

Shoot out the tires.

F*ck the tires. Shoot the shooter, the cop he shot is dead.

I hope they catch him alive, if for no other reason than to find out if there is a connection to the bombing from earlier. Better to close both cases if possible, and get him to flip on any accomplices if he was involved in the bombings.

So to recap it looks like we have:1 MIT officer down (killed sadly)2 BP officers down, 1 at least in route to BI1 suspect in custody in route to BI1 suspect at largePossible IED but that may be destroyed now

Christ, if they did let the second suspect get away and just nabbed some poor random bastard, I *really* hope the first one survives. Otherwise, we may not get ahold of his accomplice until there's another farking rampage.

Holy shiat listening to the live local news feed and the guy who just called in (someone affiliated with the station) reported the cops are literally standing outside his home pointing guns at his house, possible suspect sighting. This is farking NUTS

Shooting at a college barely a swallow's flight away from a bombing that killed 3 and injured over 150, and just three days after said bombing. Why WOULDN'T the FBI be there?

NewportBarGuy:King Something: Students of the Massachusetts Institute of TECHNOLOGY are not necessarily tech-savvy.

To be fair, they do court the other sciences. I'm just very doubtful they are students. And, crime does happen. Could they have caught them trying to hit the campus, maybe. I'll just go with crazy guy doing crazy things. Like every other day ending in y.

Point taken, but if the crazy guy doing crazy things is an MIT student, chances are he is a bit more tech-savvy than your average AOL user.

To anyone who doesn't know, "cover" means hiding behind something that can stop bullets - "concealment" means you're just hiding, but behind something that won't stop bullets. The police at the house found out the suspects were using long guns (like a black rifle), which are more powerful, so they realized they needed to back off and find cover and let SWAT finish clearing the house.

draa:Bunny Deville: A former weatherman who has now moved on to the Delmarva area is reporting that there was a massive gun battle, which I'm pretty sure is bullshiat but would love for someone to definitely deny.

There were reports of shots fired eariler. They were firing from the car just before the bombs came out. Not sure if cops returned fire though. Crazy shait going on for sure.

Bunny Deville:cameroncrazy1984: Bunny Deville: As someone who has lived through one school shooting (I wasn't there, left an hour before, same building, still the scariest day of my life)

if you left an hour before you didn't "live through it"

You dealt with the aftermath.

They bands, I took you off ignore this last year by I can put you right back there. I lived through it because my husband was on campus. I lived through it because there were the worst fifteen minutes of my life when I didn't know whether he was dead or alive. I lived through it because for six hours I didn't know if my friends had survived. I lived through it because I couldn't go to class for weeks without news trucks and farking marching bands trying to welcome me back. But I'm not worried about that right now. I'm worried about the people that are living it RIGHT THE fark NOW.

You shut your whore mouth. They are doing an awesome job in a combat situation. You can do better, you go there and do it.

Agents shouldn't have to ask in the open what's going on while on the scene. They could be using GPS to have a real time tracking of cars to establish a perimeter, and have a single voice updating everyone. This is madness.

You must think running an emergency scene is like the movies. Usually I don't lose my temper at you, but this time, you're a f*cking idiot.

ekdikeo4:It sounds like chaos on the scanners, they just said to everyone to move to channel 1.. do we have different scanner links for their channels?

Channel one is probably the tac channel. Probably for the mutual aid & to coordinate between MIT/BPD and to clear air for routine traffic. And also so their conversation doesn't end up on CNN and becoming wrong "news."

cameroncrazy1984:Bunny Deville: As someone who has lived through one school shooting (I wasn't there, left an hour before, same building, still the scariest day of my life)

if you left an hour before you didn't "live through it"

You dealt with the aftermath.

They bands, I took you off ignore this last year by I can put you right back there. I lived through it because my husband was on campus. I lived through it because there were the worst fifteen minutes of my life when I didn't know whether he was dead or alive. I lived through it because for six hours I didn't know if my friends had survived. I lived through it because I couldn't go to class for weeks without news trucks and farking marching bands trying to welcome me back. But I'm not worried about that right now. I'm worried about the people that are living it RIGHT THE fark NOW.

Notabunny:GAT_00: Notabunny: GAT_00: Hmm, so this is pretty much done, just disable the bombs. Suspects are held.

One suspect is at large. He took off in an SUV while shooting out the window.

They were saying one suspect heading to Beth Israel, someone else pinned down, and someone escaping, but only two suspects. So it's unclear which of those three is false.

This isn't being directed well.

I may be wrong, but I think the injured suspect held at gunpoint and the suspect being taken to the hospital are one and the same. But, yes, it's getting so that you can't tell the players w/o a program.

The last PD feed confirmed two suspects in custody, one on the ground, one at the hospital. That was per the officers on scene reporting back to the watch commander. The suspect down is the one they are waiting on the robot for.

this is unreal. i clicked on the broadcast out of curiousity right as they started with shots fired, shots fired! it is like tuning in to a movie. im stunned. pulled it up on google earth.. very residential neighborhood in watertown, ma. not seeing any of this on news yet

If this were the sort of situation that required a lot of talking heads to fill up airtime with inane speculation, they would be all over it. Dealing with this would require some actual, real-time reporting, so they're saying "fark it."